#coma buck theory you are so dear to me that was a very gratifying fandom experience

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I was /not/ here for the early days of the coma buck theory, I'm curious what bits of foreshadowing people were clocking, or what bts stuff was tipping people off? Also, have they ever before hidden someone being in serious danger right until the episode airs? Like, we saw plenty of clips/stills/bts that told us someone was getting hit by lightning and that it was probably Buck. I assumed they always showed these things in promos and sneak peeks

for the coma theory, I believe its @loveyourownsmiilee who clocked all the clues first and she also did it early on in 6A which is what's really insane about how fast the fandom came up with the coma theory (I remember in one of the post-ep interviews for 6A the interviewer asked kristen what she thought about the fan theory that buck was gonna end up in a coma and she was like "...no comment" which I found beyond hilarious). but yeah coma buck started because juju and the others noticed oliver's absence in bts during filming and then the bts of him wearing the coma dream outfit which looked super out of character and the other bts of him wearing his recovery outfit and being scruffed, which I believe was the main part of it.

as for the if they hide someone being in serious danger I mean I've only been watching live and in the fandom since the post 5B hiatus so my only experience is with karen and then buck but they definitely didn't try to hide it during those times once it came to promoting the episode. I believe I heard we also knew Eddie was gonna be shot but that could be wrong cause I also heard the shooting scene caught almost everybody off-guard. considering the absolute lack of promo for these last couple episodes tho I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't know about someone (cough christopher cough) being in serious danger.